Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
April 13, 2012
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proposals that may be submitted by a
single institution and will require institutional screening to determine which
applications will be submitted. Dr. Jim
Guikema, Associate Vice President for
Research, is the internal coordinator for
limited submission programs. Please
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date listed in the Funding Bulletin or by
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deadline if you wish to submit to a limited submission program. Currently
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GENERAL
14-1 Ruth L. Kirschstein National
Research Service Award (NRSA)
Institutional Research Training Grants
(Parent T32) (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
will award Ruth L. Kirschstein National
Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) to
eligible institutions as the primary means
of supporting predoctoral and postdoctoral research training to help ensure that a
diverse and highly trained workforce is
available to assume leadership roles
related to the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research agenda. The
objective of the T32 program is to prepare
qualified individuals for careers that have
a significant impact on the health-related
research needs of the Nation. This program
supports predoctoral and postdoctoral
research training programs (including
those with short term research training) at
domestic institutions of higher education
with the T32 funding mechanism. PA-11184 (NIHG 3/30/12)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
pa-files/PA-11-184.html
Deadline: 5/25/2012, 9/25/2012, 1/25/
2013
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AGRICULTURE
14-2 Special Research Grants
Program—Pest Management
Alternatives (USDA)
The purpose of Pest Management Alternatives Program (PMAP) is to provide
support for the development and implementation of integrated pest management
(IPM) practices, tactics, and systems for
specific pest problems while reducing
human and environmental risks. The successful management of pest problems in
commercial production is facing severe
challenges due to regulatory changes,
emergence of new pest problems, and the
development of pest resistance to present
management technologies. The greatest
impact on current management technologies is in the production of specialty
crops; however, other crops, including
grain, forage and fiber, as well as animal
health, are also being impacted by these
changes. USDA-NIFA-SRGP-003747
(GG 4/12/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/pmap.html
Deadline: 5/14/2012
14-3 Risk Management Education
and Outreach Partnership Program
(USDA)
The purpose of this competitive cooperative partnership agreement program is to
deliver crop insurance education and risk
management training to U.S. agricultural producers to assist them in identifying and managing production, marketing,
legal, financial and human risk. RMARME-OR-2012 (GG 4/12/12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 5/24/2012
14-4 Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative—Childhood Obesity
Prevention (USDA)
This Challenge Area Focuses on the
societal challenge to end obesity among
children, the number one nutritionrelated problem in the US. Food is an
integral part of the process that leads to
obesity and USDA has a unique responsibility for the food system in the United
States. This program is designed to
achieve the long-term outcome of reducing the prevalence of overweight and
obesity among children and adolescents
2-19 years. The Childhood Obesity Program supports Multi-function Integrated
Research, Education, and/or Extension
Projects and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE) Grants.
USDA-NIFA-AFRI-003742 (GG 4/9/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/afri.html
Deadline: 6/5/2012
14-5 Smith-Lever Special Needs
Competitive Grants Program (USDA)
Within the states and territories, the
Cooperative Extension System has
repeatedly served as the trusted community organization that has helped to enable
families, communities, and businesses to
successfully prepare for, respond to and
cope with disaster losses and critical incidents. Once a disaster has occurred, the
local extension outreach includes: 1)
Communicating practical science-based
risk information, 2) Developing relevant
educational experiences and programs, 3)
Working with individuals and communities to open new communication channels, and 4) Mitigating losses and
facilitating recovery. NIFA intends to
fund Special Needs projects to implement
applied scientific programs that serve
public needs in preparation for, during
and after local or regional emergency situations. Applications may be submitted
with the approval of Extension Directors
of 1862 Land-grant Institutions. USDANIFA-SLBCD-003741 (GG 4/4/12)
URL: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/
rfas/smith_lever.html
Deadline: 6/1/2012
ARTS & HUMANITIES
14-6 Preservation and Access
Research and Development Grants
(NEH)
Preservation and Access Research and
Development grants support projects that
address major challenges in preserving or
providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges
include the need to find better ways to
preserve materials of critical importance
to the nation’s cultural heritage—from
fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog
recordings and digital assets subject to
technological obsolescence—and to
develop advanced modes of searching,
discovering, and using such materials.
Applicants should define a specific problem, devise procedures and potential solutions, and explain how they would
evaluate their projects and disseminate
their findings. Project results must serve
the needs of a significant number of
humanists. 20120516-PR (GG 3/7/12)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/
guidelines/PARD.html
Deadline: 5/16/2012
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS
& PHYSICS
14-7 DARPA Robotics Challenge
(DARPA)
The primary goal of the DARPA Robotics
Challenge program is to develop ground
robotic capabilities to execute complex
tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-
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engineered environments. The program
will focus on robots that can utilize available human tools, ranging from hand
tools to vehicles. The program aims to
advance the key robotic technologies of
supervised autonomy, mounted mobility,
dismounted mobility, dexterity, strength,
and platform endurance. Supervised
autonomy will be developed to allow
robot control by non-expert operators, to
lower operator workload, and to allow
effective operation despite low fidelity
(low bandwidth, high latency, intermittent) communications. DARPA-BAA-1239 (GG 4/10/12)
URL: https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/
DARPA/CMO/DARPA-BAA-12-39/
listing.html
Deadline: 5/31/2012
14-8 Computational and DataEnabled Science and Engineering
(CDS&E) in Engineering (CDS&EENG) (NSF)
Computational and Data-Enabled Science
and Engineering (CDS&E) is a NSF-wide
cross-disciplinary activity that coordinates relevant disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs at the intersection of
mathematics and statistics, computer and
computational science, and the core science and engineering disciplines. It is
dedicated to the development and use of
advanced computational methods, information processing, data mining and analysis, and advanced cyberinfrastructure to
enable and execute transformative scientific discovery and engineering innovation, and to the education of experts and
non-experts in computation, including
workforce development and training. The
CDS&E-ENG program will support fundamental research that will address the
computational and data-related challenges
in science and engineering. Proposals are
expected to be relevant to engineering and
to have cross-cutting and integrative
themes. NSF 12-549
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
nsf12549/nsf12549.htm
Deadline: 7/3/2012
14-9 Building Opportunity Out of
Science and Technology (BOOST)
(DOS)
The Bureau of Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs
(OES) Office of Science and Technology
Cooperation at the Department of State
announces the Request for Applications
(RFA) for the Building Opportunity Out
of Science and Technology (BOOST)
program. This program aims to advance
the Bureau’s mission to increase the role
that science, technology, and innovation
play in societies across the world by
building capacity for young scientists to
perform innovative research, to connect
with the international scientific community, and to apply their technical training
in addressing key global challenges and in
advancing economic growth. With FY
2011 funding, OES will fund three awards
for projects that train young scientists to
build science and technology capacity to
advance research outcomes, to create
market-ready technologies, and/or to
inform policymaking through scientific
research. Proposed projects should
deliver professional development activities for early career scientists (18 to 30
years old). Proposals must focus activities
in at least one of the following countries:
Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Tunisia,
and Turkey. OES-OPP-12-001 (GG 3/29/
12)
URL: http://www07.grants.gov
Deadline: 5/24/2012
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
14-10 Healthy Eating Research:
Building Evidence to Prevent
Childhood Obesity (RWJF)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity program supports research on environmental
and policy strategies with strong potential
to promote healthy eating among children
to prevent childhood obesity, especially
among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.
RWJF funds efforts at the organizational,
community, state, and federal levels to
change public and institutional policies
and environments in ways that promote
improved nutrition and physical activity.
This work ranges from large-scale
changes to smaller-scale efforts taking
place at the organizational or institutional
level (e.g., in schools, recreational programs, child-care settings, hospitals, retail
food outlets) that could be replicated if
effective. Proposals are invited for two
types of awards: 1) Round 7 grants, and
2) RWJF New Connections grants. Round
7 grants represent the majority of RWJF’s
investment in research through this program. Approximately $1.7 million will be
awarded in grants of up to $170,000 for a
maximum funding period of eighteen
months. The New Connections grants are
offered in collaboration with RWJF’s
New Connections program, which is
designed to expand the diversity of perspectives that inform RWJF programming
and introduce new researchers and scholars to the foundation. These grants are to
support research by new investigators
representing populations and communities historically underrepresented in childhood obesity prevention research,
including researchers from underrepresented ethnic or racial minority groups
and lower-income communities and those
who are first-generation college graduates. (PND 3/23/12)
URL: http://www.rwjf.org/applications/
solicited/cfp.jsp
Deadline: Concept Papers 5/22/2012;
Round 7 8/9/12
Comprehensive Community College
Concepts; 3) Integrated Agricultural
Projects; 4) Innovative Tourism Concepts; 5) Implementation of the U.S. Academic System. The United States
Embassy/Tunis is planning to support
higher education partnerships with Tunisian Higher Institutes to establish these
programs: Exchanges of faculty and
experts, Creation of knowledge centers,
Building a library of relevant materials,
Joint market research by collaborating
faculty, and Support for Student innovation projects. 20120410 (GG 4/10/12)
URL: http://tunisia.usembassy.gov/esffunding-april-10-2012.html
Deadline: 5/23/2012
SOCIAL SCIENCES
14-12 Grants to Reduce Sexual
Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating
Violence, and Stalking on Campus
Program (DOJ)
The United States Department of Justice,
Office on Violence Against Women
(OVW) is pleased to announce that it is
seeking applications for the Grants to
Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on
Campus Program. This program furthers
the Department’s mission by strengthening on campus victim services, security,
and investigative strategies to prevent and
prosecute violent crimes against women
on campuses.OVW-2012-3147 (GG 4/10/
12)
URL: http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov
Deadline: 5/22/2012
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
Jim Guikema, Associate Vice President for
Research
Caron Boyce, Administrative Specialist
Preaward Section
Paul Lowe, Director
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
Kathy Tilley, Rich Doan, Carmen Garcia,
Adassa Roe, Katie Small, Rex Goff, Susan
Klein, Sharon Zoeller
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Development Director
Mary Lou Marino
INTERNATIONAL/MULTICULTURAL
14-11 ESF Funding Opportunity:
University Partnership (DOS)
The subject of this US-Tunisian University Collaboration is in the fields related
to: 1) American Accounting Standards; 2)
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
Gerald P. Jaax, Associate Vice President,
Research Compliance
Heath Ritter, Compliance Monitor
Adrian Self, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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